You're mom so you know what to say and do best. When you do homeschooling at home you still can run across the defiance, for me I can be very strict when they act out so the defiance phase just doesn't last long with any of my kids.
That's me, if you're not like that find your own approach. Maybe an award system for every paper she brings home that is correct she gets a sticker, a tiny tootsie roll, or a smartie for being smart, maybe thirty minutes of computer time. If it's attention maybe you cay say she can have half an hour of just you and her time to play anything she wants, watch something she enjoys, or bake together if she's good all school week.
If she is truly struggling to maybe remember some concepts try to have workbooks at home for her to work on in the evenings and weekends, maybe include her in some of the homeschooling so she can do both charter and homeschool at home, but make the work the stuff she is having issues in. Good luck!
Quoting Knightquester:You're mom so you know what to say and do best. When you do homeschooling at home you still can run across the defiance, for me I can be very strict when they act out so the defiance phase just doesn't last long with any of my kids.
That's me, if you're not like that find your own approach. Maybe an award system for every paper she brings home that is correct she gets a sticker, a tiny tootsie roll, or a smartie for being smart, maybe thirty minutes of computer time. If it's attention maybe you cay say she can have half an hour of just you and her time to play anything she wants, watch something she enjoys, or bake together if she's good all school week.
If she is truly struggling to maybe remember some concepts try to have workbooks at home for her to work on in the evenings and weekends, maybe include her in some of the homeschooling so she can do both charter and homeschool at home, but make the work the stuff she is having issues in. Good luck!
Oh HECK NO! That is torture for anyone let alone a child with ADHD.I would talk to the school about an IEP. If she can do the first page with a 90% or higher, she doesn't have to do more. That's what I do with DS. If he gets an 84% or lower, we review the concept, add a few more problems and correct the missed problems until I'm sure he understands.
My middle DS has ADHD and tried the definant stage. As PP said, we had to set ground rules and expectatoins from the start and that helped. We still had bad days.
I found that using a sticker reward chart was a huge help. We pulle dhim at the end of hte school year so we had all summer to "deschool" and we started some schoolwork before it actually started so he could get a feel for how different it would be. It took us really OVER 2 years to get him totally deschooled and enjoying learning again.
Maybe she just feels like the amount of pages is unsurmountable?
She completed 2 pages of math, she got every one of them right that I made her do. the 11 only took her 10 minutes so I know she understands it, she is just overwhelmed with the amount of the same thing over and over.
She has until friday at this school to show me that she is willing to work hard in order to get what she wants...she wants to be homeschooled but I had to bargain with her this way (what can I say, it works for her. LOL) She has to give it her best all week and keep her attitude in check (meaning she cannot throw herself on the floor and cry like a 2 year old like she did tonight) or she wont get to hs. A
fter I talked to her, her attitude changed and she did what I asked her to do for the night, although it is not what the teacher wanted her to finish. I already have her letter of intent to homeschool typed up and signed, I will turn it in Tuesday, her school is closed on Monday.
Quoting momof3inapril09:
its rediculous and with her adhd it is a fight to get her to finish. i told her she had to fnish the 11 problems she had on the page and she could be done for the night. she got home from school at 4:15 and has been working on it since then. it is now 8:05. :(
That is way to much review work. I hope this all works out for you
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- momof3inapril09
on Feb. 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM